re: Quick Red Beans and Rice recipe for 40

Then I stand by my recommendation of using instapots. That is really the only way you're going to be able to get those beans tender in a short period of time.

Blue Runner beans are already tender.

I'm guessing you have never used them.

My wife's family is from New Orleans. If they don't have time to soak beans that's what they use.

Try them out some time.

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We can't bring in anything that's not prepared on site.

Because Ronald McDonald House does not allow it

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Weird, because we just did this back in November and they allowed us to prepare food ahead of time. The instructions were we could either premake the food and transport it or prepare it onsite. So, we prepped everything and cooked it there. Even brought premade salads and desserts.

I guess different locations have different restrictions.

The crazy part was that we prepared enough food for 60 (because that's what they told us to expect) and we only served 13 people.

They also informed us to bring containers to package individual meals with the food that didn't get served, but they didn't have enough cold storage space to accommodate all the meals.

Overall, it was a good experience for our students and it felt good to serve the community.

Trinity and sausage. If I use Blue Runner, I will usually add in some non blue runner canned red beans. I like the texture the whole beans add to the cream style. I also add in a couple drops of smoke flavor - not really enough to taste it, but just enough to give it a hint of smokiness. You would also likely have time to throw in some ham hocks or smoked turkey necks or something like that to add a different flavor.

If you have some time before you cook, try a sample size. It may not be exactly 1:1, but should put you in range.
Buy a can of beans, cook some sausage and rice proportional to the servings then calculate the scale up. Should get you close to what you need and buffer up a bit.
Either you and your volunteers are taking leftovers home or distributing to those folks that may need it. You may want to scale up anyway for the other volunteers since they likely skipped a meal to prepare the food.

I've cooked before for 50 and used 3 of the large industrial (128oz) cans of Blue Runner Red Beans and added 5 regular cans of Trappey's Light Kidney Beans just to have some visible beans.

Like others have said, saute your onions, bell peppers and garlic and use smoked sausage and ham hocks.

Blue Runner beans are great for this type of event. Good luck and thanks for doing this.

Soak the beans... vac bag them... bring in the nice sealed soaked beans... you can get soaked beans to done in an hour.